Pastor Sam and I have asked the people of Victory Christian Life Center to set one week aside in the month of December to fast from something meaningful to them (a meal, dessert, social media, video games, their favorite shows, etc.) and take the time that they would be doing that thing and dedicate it to the Lord. We are encouraging each person to specifically ask God during this time to reveal His priorities for us. To order our lives. To reset our day to day activities to line up with what it is that He wants each of us to accomplish at this time.
As leaders Pastor Sam and I know that the way that we spend our time directly affects the progress and direction of the church. We desire to be the type of leaders that are purposeful with our time. We want every moment that we have to count towards the Visions that God has placed in our heart for this church and this city. We realize that in order to be successful in these pursuits we must take stock of our day to day habits and routines and ask the Lord to reveal any place where they may be off. Any place where we are giving something our time that we shouldn't be or anything that we are missing that we should be putting time and energy into.
We are so very thankful for Vision! Without it we would be doing nothing and going nowhere. But God is always faithful to reveal the next step and help us to fine tune who we are and what we are doing to fit that FOCUS.
Over the next week we will be fasting ENTERTAINMENT (movies, TV, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) Basically anything that we normally use to "Unplug". Every time that we have a chunk of time that we would have spent doing those things throughout our day we will instead turn our time and attention to the Lord, Love on Him & Ask Him to bring His purposes for this season of our lives into Focus. We believe in the principle of Fasting and are looking forward to all of the good that will come from this sacrifice!
We invite you to join us on this journey and share your own stories through the comment section of this blog as you Fast for Focus throughout the month of December!
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